...” to the extent that it proliferated in the successor states of the Mughal empire over the eighteenth century. Lally’s article analyzes the transformation of the equestrian portrait, using this topos as a set of sources through which to examine changes in kingship and imperial politics from the seventeenth...

... Kalyanmalot sought death in 1577, we must address the larger issue of the changes wrought on the Rajput world by the expanding power of the Mughal empire, one of the main questions that Busch probed in her research. Vernacular texts composed at Rajput courts not only provide a valuable alternate perspective...

... role in the tragic history of the Mughal Empire's failed modernity. Murthy contends that we continue Chakrabarty's project and go further in understanding Sarkar's project through a structural analysis, which would also provide a comparative perspective. Toward the end of the essay, Murthy discusses...

... (1526-1530), the first of the Mughal rulers, per- followed.86 sonally planned and sited several royal gardens, striving to In the time of Akbar (1556-1605), the consolidator of reproduce the Timurid cultural atmosphere he had left behind the Mughal Empire, aspects of the Circle of Justice gradually...

... and by openly encouraging acts of terrorism Mughal power, the British East India Company created an against them. The terrorist acts, which include murder and empire of its own, which was ultimately acquired after the assault of Ahmadis, are increasing (Rehman, 1986:48-49). uprising of 1857 by British...

... of—the modern state's authority, we consider—through the lens of the encounter between the English/British East India Company, the Mughal Empire, and variously themed regional states of the subcontinent—the multiple sources of legal authority claimed by the Company and the way in which it positioned its legal...

... and mise of the Mughal Empire, the latter continued information apparatus. From the late nineteenth to retain its formal control over its provinces well century, they began to supply in small doses the into the late nineteenth century, with secession- rudiments of liberal...

... of Washington , 2016 . Peters Rudolph . “ From Jurists' Law to Statute Law or What Happens When the Shari'a Is Codified .” Mediterranean Politics 7 , no. 3 : 82 – 95 . Pirbhai M. Reza . “ A Historiography of Islamic Law in the Mughal Empire .” In The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law...

... the bureaucracies and house- holds of Hindustan and the Deccan. This need was met first by vast numbers of Iranians com- ing to India in two significant waves: first as they fled from Mongol depredations, and then as they sought their fortune at imperial and subimperial courts of the Mughal empire.4 It was also...

...’ in the history of the Marathi lan- fact excluded many. Hence, Alam continues, when the guage. This period saw the rise and development of the empire was challenged by regionally based ethnicities, Varkaris and the Mahanubhavas, the two sects that pro- the Mughals came to realize that “the increasing cultural...

... and labour whereby a portion the collapse of the Mughal Empire (mid-18th of the working day is unpaid labour appro- century onwards), they indulged in an orgy of priated by the capitalist as surplus value looting and chicanery that brought the (the origin and source...

... . Faruqui Munis D. Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Fisher Michael Herbert . Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764–1858 . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1991 . Gellner David N. , ed...

... modern Persophone literature ended in the elite language, an Indian vernacular took them up as a rightful inheritor. Hindi or Hindavī were the loose names for the Mughal vernacular of the urdū , or imperial horde, and it quickly became a literary parlance in urban centers throughout the Mughal empire...

... of Awadh? Orsini observes that “unlike the Rajputs of Rajasthan, the Rajputs of Awadh were not co-opted into the Mughal Empire as military-administrative officials.” 41 It is also important to recognize the growing presence of the British in Awadh in the first half of the nineteenth century, which...

..., No. 3, 2017 doi 10.1215/1089201x-4279248 © 2017 by Duke University Press Vernacular Conquest? A Persian Patron and His Image in the Seventeenth- Century Deccan Subah Dayal T he idea that the Persian language integrated courtly elites and social groups into the Mughal empire raises a number...

... Development in the Economy of Mughal India”, Journal of Economic History , 29 . Hasan , N. , 1964 , “The Position of Zamindars in the Moghul Empire”, Indian Economic and Social History Review , 1 : 4 . Hobsbawm , E.J. , 1962 , The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 , New York: Mentor...

... Jahan personally intervened in the succession to the crown of Marwar, promoting Jaswant Singh over his elder brother. Jaswant Singh was favored at court and became an important Mughal military commander. See Richards, Mu- ghal Empire, 180. 44. Arzu, Majma al-Nafa is (ed. Khan), 976; cf. Mukhlis, Mir...

... hereditary tenants who cultivated under a variety of crop- Accounts of pre-colonial India are dominated by the sharing arrangements. These tenants were of two kinds, Mughal empire with the result that the very different forms uuLakuuDii who were traditional village...

... range of transliterated Sanskrit words Indo-­Persian poetry for several centuries pre- that lend a heavy Indic register to the Persian ceding the Mughal Empire in the Persianate text. Many such terms denote culturally specific sense of an individual devoted to idol worship. concepts...

..., and the onomic importance of India to the British large surplus was gathered in by officers of Empire, and the strategic exigencies of the Mughal Empire from tenant farmers (as in defence promoted in the Northwest a close Sind) or peasant farmers organized in village alliance between the landed elite...